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This file consists of 4 copy prints and negatives depicting the Williams Lake townsite, Stampede, and Chimney Creek bridge.

A b&w plan drafted on a tracing paper, produced by Central Planning and Management Consulting LTD. Prince George. Mackenzie Ave. is identified on the plan. It shows lot, roads and subdivisions.

A b&w plan illustrating subdivision of a region around Second St. and Mackenzie Ave in Williams Lake. Plan is produced by Central Planning and Management Consulting LTD. in Prince George.

Cariboo - Chilcotin region of British Columbia

File contains slides depicting places in the area around Williams Lake, Clinton, and the Fraser Canyon.

Lake viewed through coniferous frame, Cariboo-Chilcotin region of British Columbia

Collection consists of 1 topographical map with red colouring entitled "Map of Placer Mines & Quartz Locations in the Vicinity of Williams Creek, Cariboo District B.C." Surveyed and Drawn by Amos Bowman, Mining Engineer, Assisted by James McEvoy, B.A. Sc., printed by the Geological Survey Department, Canada

File consists of research materials concerning ornithologist William Rowan. File includes photocopied published and archival research materials, publications, handwritten notes, photographs, and related correspondence.

File consists of archival research materials and related correspondence concerning William Rowan.

File consists of Ainley's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant application and approval for her research on "William Rowan: A Biography." File includes application forms, correspondence, notes, and a SSHRC publication "Research Grants: Guide for Applicants."

Man in fedora atop a ladder

File contains correspondence from William Kinsella. Includes letters to Brian Fawcett from William Kinsella regarding scheduled readings. Letters dated January 25, 1983; May 9, November 10, December 24, 1985; September 4, 1988.

File consists of material relating to William John "Wiggs" O'Neill, a riverboat pioneer. Wiggs began working on a Skeena River sternwheeler in 1898 and continued working on the river until the end of the steamboat era in 1911. He then moved to Smithers, where he operated the first power plant and owned an auto agency for 43 years. Materials include two books, newspaper clippings, and reproductions of journal articles. Highlights include:

• Wiggs O'Neill, "Steamboat Days on the Skeena River British Columbia", 1963 (book)
• Wiggs O'Neill, "Whitewater Man of the Skeena", 1960 (book)

File consists of material relating to William "Billy" J. Rhimes (Rimes?), editor of the Nechako Chronicle newspaper. Materials include a manuscript titled "1918 in Vanderhoof by Billy Rhimes", as well as newspaper clippings.

File contains correspondence to Brian Fawcett from William (Bill) Hoffer. The items are a booklet entitled, "A Correspondence" that includes typed copies of related correspondence, copyright 1985, 23 pages, and letters dated predominantly 1985.

Portrait photograph depicts Judge William Dow Ferry holding a pipe.

Portrait photograph shows William D. Ferry in his judicial robes.

Photograph is a head-on portrait of Judge William Dow Ferry.

Series consists of records and photographs relating to Judge William Ferry's life and career. Includes school records from Prince George Public School and the University of British Columbia, military photographs, and records, certificates and photographs relating to his his judicial career.

Photograph depicts William Dow Ferry upon his graduation from the University of British Columbia Law School in May 1949.

Files contain a grade six report card, high school entrance certificate, certificates of appointment to various positions, a photocopy about the Dow Family, a map of the Cariboo District, Judge Ferry’s law degree from the University of British Columbia, his Law Society diplomas and his certificate of appointment to the Supreme Court of British Columbia.

File contains correspondence to Brian Fawcett from William Deverell. Includes a letter dated October 27, 1993.

File consists of notes and reproductions relating to William Binney Milner, a Vancouver-based financier who owned Eagle Lake Sawmills at Giscome and the Prince George Citizen newspaper. File also includes photographs depicting the exterior of a house at the address 2890 Marine Drive (2005).

Willard Freer, a packer and guide in remote northern BC, kept a daily diary from 1942 to 1975 that provides a detailed record of life in northern BC and southern Yukon Territory. This collection consists of digital replicas of Willard Freer's diaries from 1942 to 1975, along with accompanying transcripts created by Jay Sherwood, who authored a book about Freer's life.

Excerpts describing the Freer Diaries from "Kechika Chronicler: Willard Freer's Northern BC & Yukon Diaries, 1942-1975" by Jay Sherwood (2023), pages 14-17:

In a letter that [Willard Freer] wrote in 1935, he stated that he had started keeping a diary when he left home. Unfortunately, his early diaries have been lost. In the summer of 1939, while Freer was away working, the BC Provincial Police investigated his neighbour Frank "Shorty" Weber as a suspect in a local murder. The police seized Freer's diaries from his trapping cabin as potential evidence. Freer wrote to the police requesting the return of his diaries, but he never received them. Fortunately, Freer had made copies of his diaries for the summers of 1932 and 1934. His diary for 1934 is particularly important because he was a member of the Bedaux Expedition.

Freer's existing diaries begin in the spring of 1942, when he was still living in the Ingenika River valley, and continue until 1975. The notebook for 1950 and 1951 is missing, and the January to September 1961 section has been removed. ...
Throughout his adult life, Freer wrote a daily journal. The entries are usually brief and direct, with minimal philosophizing. They are often repetitive, describing daily routines. However, the cumulative narrative of Freer's diaries provides a rare look into the history of one of British Columbia's most remote areas.

The pantheon of people recorded in Freer's diaries include many notable individuals who lived and worked in the Kechika River valley and along the Alaska Highway. Willard's journals provide details about specific events in the lives of these people. There are many references to the famous bush pilots Stan Bridcut and George Dalziel. He notes several prospectors who are well-known in northern BC and Yukon.

Willard's work involved extensive travel through northern BC and Yukon. His diaries provide details about the locations he visited. In particular, Freer kept an important record of travel on the Davie Trail between Fort Ware and Lower Post. For every overnight trip he made, Freer recorded the campsite he used, and the amount of time he spent travelling each day.

During the 1940s and 1950s, the Kaska and Kwadacha Tsek'ene still followed their traditional yearly rounds in the Kechika drainage. Freer's diaries detail the lives and routines of numerous Indigenous people over many years. Some of them are mentioned over a hundred times in Freer's diaries. By all accounts, Willard had good relationships with the Indigenous people. In the remote northern BC and Yukon region, where there were few people, working co-operatively was important.

Willard lived and worked at Skook Davidson's Diamond J Ranch during most of the 1940s and at intervals in the 1950s, so his journals provide considerable information about Skook and life at the ranch.
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Freer's diaries contain considerable information about daily life in the lodges along the Alaska Highway.
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Freer was involved in many important projects in northern BC and Yukon. He was a member of the famous 1934 Bedaux Expedition. Freer was a packer for BC and federal government survey crews for several summers; worked on the British Columbia-Yukon Boundary Survey for four years; was employed on Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) crews for several years; and spent three field seasons on the BC government's Forest Inventory program. Willard also packed for a couple of large mining exploration companies and was a hunting guide for Robin Dalziel and other guide outfitters.

Freer's diaries can also be used to monitor events like the weather and snowfall. In the winter, when he lived at Skook's ranch or at his cabin, he recorded the temperature in the morning, at midday, and in the evening. He also noted snowfalls. Willard recorded the date that the Kechika froze over in the fall, and when the ice melted off the river in the spring. He also noted his first observations of birds in the spring.
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The diaries of Willard Freer, which chronicle over thirty years of life in northern BC, are a unique account, providing a gateway to many of the people who lived there and some of the important events that occurred.

Map depicts the area around Wilkinson Creek near Carmi, BC. Annotated by Davies to show the Kettle Valley Railway.

Series consists of materials related to the oral history related by Wilf Howlett to Audrey Smedley/L'Heureux. Includes 1 bound, 1 unbound, and 1 electronic transcript, as well as three audio recordings, each of which has an accompanying copy.

Consists of 1 floppy disk (Sony 1.44MB high density MFD-2HD) of interview.

Consists of 1 audio recording (Maxell UR) of interview.

Consists of 1 audio recording (Maxell UR) of interview.

Consists of 1 audio recording (Maxell UR) of interview.

Consists of 1 audio recording (Maxell UR) of interview.

Consists of 1 audio recording (Maxell UR) of interview.

Consists of 1 audio recording (Maxell UR) of interview.

The item is an audiocassette interview of Wilf Erickson conducted by Kent Sedgwick. Annotation on cassette case states, "Wilf Erickson Sept 2001 RE: Salmon Portage."

Item is an original report entitled "Wildlife of the Bowron Lakes Region" by R.Y. Edwards.